25 January 2014, 00:07
Maikop-Sochi road is not under special Olympic security measures (video)
Amid increased security measures in Northern Caucasus before the 2014 Winter Olympics, the road section Maikop-Sochi remains out of control, at least officially – by law enforcement bodies, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports. The road over the Shaumyan Pass remains the shortest route from the North-Caucasian republics to the capital of the 2014 Winter Olympics.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that since January 7 Sochi is under enhanced security measures for the period of the 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. Also, as decreed by the Russian President, in the period from January 7 to March 21, 2014, a restriction of vehicular traffic in the section of the A-147 from the 80th km Dzhubga-Sochi-border with Abkhazia.
As for the alternative route to Sochi from the city of Maikop passing through the Shaumyan Pass, as it became known to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, there were no official announcements about any restriction of the traffic on this route.
Meanwhile, this road is fit not only for residents of the Stavropol Territory, where since January 9, security measures were enhanced after a series of murders of car drivers, but also for motorists from Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia, Chechnya and Dagestan.
